Associate Professor ASLI AKTAN ERCİYES
A BLOK 2. KAT 225
+90 (212) 5336532 - 1633
Education
Doctorate
Boğaziçi University
Psychological Sciences
Master's Degree
Boğaziçi University
Psychology
Bachelor's Degree
Boğaziçi University
Management
Research Areas
- Language Development
- Second Langauge Acquisition
- Language - Cognition interaction
- Cognitive development
Work Experience
2018 /
Continuing
Department of Psychology
Assistant Professor
2017 /
2018
Department of Psychology
Adjunct Professor
2017 /
2018
Koç University
Post-doc researcher
2015 /
2017
Research Assistant
Koç University
2012 /
2015
Research Assistant
Boğaziçi University
Administrative Duties
| Görev Adı | Görev Yeri | Başlangıç tarihi | Bitiş Tarihi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurumsal Araştırma ve Değerlendirme Direktörü | Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Rektörlük | 23.01.2024 | |
| Double Major Coordinator | Psikoloji Bölümü | 01.01.2020 |
Publications
- Doğan, Işıl; Özer, Demet; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Furman, Reyhan; Demir-Lira, Ece; Özçalışkan, Şeyda; Göksun, Tilbe (2024), "The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language", Infant and Child Development, DOI: 10.1002/icd.2552
- Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Ger, Ebru; Göksun, Tilbe (2024), "Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children", First Language, DOI: 10.1177/01427237241264866
- Göksun, Tilbe; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Karadöller, Dilay Z.; Demir-Lira, Ece (2024), "The multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting children's characteristics with parental input types", Child Development Perspectives, DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12524
- Kandemir, Songül; Özer, Demet; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı (2023), "Multimodal language in child-directed versus adult-directed speech", Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, DOI: 10.1177/17470218231188832
- Arslan, Burcu; Aktan-Erciyes, Asll; Göksun, Tilbe (2023), "Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency", Bilingualism, Vol.39, DOI: 10.1017/S1366728923000196
- Ozdemir, Salih C.; Aktan-Erciyes, Asll; Göksun, Tilbe (2023), "Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study", Journal of Child Language, DOI: 10.1017/S030500092300048X
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asll; Akbuǧa, Emir; Dik, Feyza Nur; Göksun, Tilbe (2022), "Linguistic and nonlinguistic evaluation of motion events in a path-focused language", Applied Psycholinguistics, Vol.43, No.4, 829-865 DOI: 10.1017/S0142716422000169
- Ünlütabak, Burcu; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Yılmaz, Duygu; Kandemir, Songül; Göksun, Tilbe (2022), "Parental input during book reading and toddlers' elicited and spontaneous communicative interactions", Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol.81, DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101436
- Altın, Elif; Okur, Nurdem; Yalçın, Esra; Eraçıkbaş, Asude Firdevs; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı (2022), "Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations", Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.13, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.820702
- Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Akbuğa, Emir; Kızıldere, Erim; Göksun, Tilbe (2022), "Motion event representation in L1-Turkish versus L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components", International Journal of Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1177/13670069221076838
- Kobaş, Mert; Kızıldere, Erim; Doğan, Işıl; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Demir-Lira, Ece; Akman, İpek; Göksun, Tilbe (2022), "Motor skills, language development, and visual processing in preterm and full-term infants", Current Psychology, DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02658-8
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe; Tekcan, Ali İzzet; Aksu-Koç, Ayhan (2021), "Children’s thinking-for-speaking: Bidirectional effects of L1 Turkish and L2 English for motion events", Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Vol.11, No.5, 669-699 DOI: 10.1075/lab.19027.akt
- Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs (2021), "Effects of second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5- and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children’s Frog story narratives", First Language, Vol.41, No.5, 605-622 DOI: 10.1177/01427237211024219
- Kobaş, Mert; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Göksun, Tilbe (2021), "Fine motor abilities and parental input of spatial features predict object word comprehension of Turkish-learning children", Infant and Child Development, Vol.30, No.4, DOI: 10.1002/icd.2243
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asll; Göksun, Tilbe (2021), "Early parental causal language input predicts children's later causal verb understanding", Journal of Child Language, DOI: 10.1017/S0305000921000805
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asli (2021), "Understanding language acquisition: Neural theory of language", Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol.17, No.2, 697-705 DOI: 10.52462/jlls.48
- Kızıldere, Erim; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Tahiroğlu, Deniz; Göksun, Tilbe (2020), "A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers", Cognitive Development, Vol.54, DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100870
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asli (2020), "Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children's frog story narratives", Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol.16, No.3, 1127-1145 DOI: 10.17263/jlls.803576
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asli (2020), "Longitudinal effects of second language on first language narrative skills and executive functions of preschool children", Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol.16, No.1, 42-58 DOI: 10.17263/JLLS.712638
- Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe (2019), "Early event understanding predicts later verb comprehension and motion event lexicalization", Developmental Psychology, Vol.55, No.11, 2249-2262 DOI: 10.1037/dev0000804
- Kısa, Yağmur Deniz; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Turan, Eylül; Göksun, Tilbe (2019), "Parental use of spatial language and gestures in early childhood", British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Vol.37, No.2, 149-167 DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12263
- Demir-Lira, Ece; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Göksun, Tilbe (2019), "New insights from children with early focal brain injury: Lessons to be learned from examining STEM-related skills", Developmental Psychobiology, Vol.61, No.3, 477-490 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21847
- Aksu-Koç, Ayhan; Aktan-Erciyes, Asli (2018), "Narrative discourse: Developmental perspectives", Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives,
- Tekcan, Ali I.; Boduroglu, Aysecan; Mutlutürk, Aysu; Aktan Erciyes, Aslı (2017), "Life-span retrieval of public events: Reminiscence bump for high-impact events, recency for others", Memory and Cognition, Vol.45, No.7, 1095-1112 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-017-0724-1
- Tekcan, Ali; Yılmaz, Engin; Kaya Kızılöz, Burcu; Karadöller, Dilay Z.; Mutafoğlu, Merve; Aktan Erciyes, Aslı (2015), "Retrieval and phenomenology of autobiographical memories in blind individuals", Memory, Vol.23, No.3, 329-339 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.886702
Projects
| Project Name | Role in the Project | Project Type | Fund Establishment | Project Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gelişimsel perspektiften nedensel dil, nedensel akıl yürütme ve karşı-olgusal dil ve karşı olgusal düşünmenin incelenmesi: Bir zihinsel uzam çalışması | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
01.05.2024 01.05.2027 |
| İkinci dil ediniminin okul öncesi ve okul çağı çocuklarında anlatı becerilerinin kurgusal, dilbilimsel ve algısal süreçlerine olan etkisi: Boylamsal bir çalışma | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
15.07.2020 15.08.2023 |
| Edinilen İkinci Dildeki Yazı Yönünün Zaman Akış Yönü Algısına Etkisi | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
01.10.2021 01.09.2022 |
Courses Offered
| Course Name | Course Code | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Language Development | PSYC406 | 2023/24 Spring |
| Experimental Child Psychology | PSYC466 | 2023/24 Spring |
| Advanced Theories in Developmental Psychology | PSY505 | 2023/24 Fall |
| Research Methods for Psychology I | PSYC201 | 2023/24 Fall |
| Selected Topics in Developmental Psychology I | PSYC331 | 2023/24 Fall |
| Research Methods for Psychology I | PSYC201 | 2024/25 Fall |
| Advanced Selected Topics in Developmental Psychology | PSY531 | 2024/25 Fall |
| Special Topics in Bilingualism | PSY608 | 2024/25 Fall |